Summarizing is an academic task that students are expected to have mastered by the time they enter college. However, experience has revealed quite the contrary. Summarization is often difficult to master as well as teach, but instructors in higher education can benefit greatly from the rapid advancement in mobile wireless technology devices, by using these devices to teach summarization. Furthermore, college students today are of the iGeneration. An overwhelming number of them own and use a mobile wireless device for texting and other communication means. This paper describes how an instructor used text messaging to teach undergraduate students to summarize.